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Human Curation Is Back | Monday Notemondaynote.com
by Jean-Louis Gassée The limitations of algorithmic curation of news and culture has prompted a return to the use of actual humans to select, edit, and explain. Who knows, this might spread to another less traditional media: apps. When San Francisco’s ... -
The Iranian Comfort Food - Roads & Kingdomsroadsandkingdoms.com
Walk the streets of downtown Tehran at dawn, before the speeding, horn-blaring yellow taxis takeover the city, and you’ll find certain kitchens already hard at work. Within the cramped spaces, men—and a few women—are busy slicing tomatoes, washing herb... -
A red flageconomist.com
CHINA is certainly not the first country to try to prop up a falling stockmarket. The central banks of America, Europe and Japan have all shown form in buying shares... - analyzegreece.gr
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Exploiting Ousterhout’s Dichotomy for fast longitude, latitude to BNG conversion, using Rust, threads, and Python FFI.sensitivecities.com
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To Be Continuous—PipelineDBpipelinedb.com
PipelineDB is a realtime analytics database that runs SQL queries continuously on incoming data. It is designed for high throughput and low operational overhead. - ldpreload.com
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How You Consist of Trillions of Tiny Machines by Tim Flannerynybooks.com
Driven by ongoing technological innovations, the exploration of the “nanoverse,” as the realm of the minuscule is often termed, continues to gather pace. -
Zenefits just made a brilliant legal move to try and block a lawsuit from its huge rival ADPbusinessinsider.com
Zenefits, a fast-growing HR startup, is using an anti-SLAPP law to try and block a lawsuit from bigger rival ADP. -
Performance Optimization, SIMD and Cacheyoutube.com
A rehash of Sergiy Migdalskiy GDC 2015 talk: Performance Optimization for Physics. A high-level overview of low-level optimization considerations you need to... -
Bamboo - an App to Save, Share and Discover Web Highlightsreadbamboo.com
Bamboo saves highlights for you right in Safari and other apps. It also turns your quotes into beautiful images so you can share nicely on Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks. -
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Memebox - UX Researcherjobs.lever.co
Memebox is pioneering a new category in the beauty industry by marrying manufacturing innovations with online technology. We're determined to create the fastest trending beauty company in the world by using data to understand the latest in beauty trend... -
David Cameron: Twitter and Facebook privacy is unsustainablepolitics.co.uk
Privacy of social media users 'can no longer be tolerated' in the face of international terror -
Why the Big Bang’s Light May Have a Tiltwired.com
Scientists haven’t rigorously tested the cosmic microwave background for a revealing shift in 25 years. A new experiment aims to change that. -
YouTube gaming star PewDiePie 'earned $7m in 2014' - BBC Newsbbc.co.uk
YouTube's most popular star PewDiePie earns $7m, according to Swedish newspaper Expressen. -
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The Unconscious Executive — HBS Working Knowledgehbswk.hbs.edu
Postdoctoral fellow Maarten Bos investigates how unconscious processes improve decision-making. Conscious deliberation, it turns out, does not always lead to the best outcomes.